For anyone who cares to know, blogger, Tim Ireland, who chooses to write blogs which are malicious, un-founded and for the most part totally untrue, has been warned by Police not to enter Bedfordshire. However, this doesn’t stop him from wasting tax payers money via freedom of information requests and then letters of complaint to the information commissioner when they don’t work. Stopping that comes next! My poor staff :( – (Nadine Dorries)

However, she seeks to portray my information request to her office as a waste of time, and even openly defies requests from the Information Commissioner’s Office that she cooperate.

There are several reasons why she might choose to do this. I offer three possibilities in this post.

1. The subject access request under the DPA would compel Dorries to reveal, among other things, all emails/letters sent to her office in my name. Dorries has made repeated claims and implications that there are hundreds of these, and that they are “vile and abusive”. The evidence I’m aware of proves otherwise (and any evidence that I am not aware of would result from someone impersonating me).

2. Below is a sample of what Dorries’ mate Dale got back from Downing Street; these are extracts from emails involving both Downing St staff and those not connected to that office, and Dale complains that “(this) detail is still lacking in some areas”. My subject access request compels Dorries to reveal any similar emails she or her staff have sent or received that mention me or my site by name. That includes emails/letters/etc. from and/or to Iain Dale, Phil Hendren, Patrick Mercer, Anne Milton, Dominic Wightman, and anybody else involved in this ongoing smear campaign. If Dorries has attempted to delete any of these after receipt of the original request (or any make any other amendment with the intention of preventing its disclosure), she risks finding herself on the wrong side of the law. Of course, Dorries may only reveal the emails she suspects I can audit (i.e. those from people supporting me), but this would greatly undermine any pretence of popular support for her position.

As you can see, she’s dug herself into another hole, and she’s been at this one so long that she’s risking a cave-in. She’s been defying the information request for so long now (well over a year) that I’ve had to issue a ‘top up’ request that ensures my request covers the period surrounding the alleged complaints to police, and the single, actual complaint to police that is on record.

Which brings us to…

3. My request also compels her to reveal any letter(s) to police about my attendance at the Flitwick hustings (including the single complaint she is reluctant to publish), as well any relevant correspondence with the organisers of that event, and key extracts from the February 2011 letter/email of resignation from Lynn Elson, which has been alleged to reference me specifically and has already been shared with another blogger (Phil Hendren) in any case.

Perhaps soon we will hear another sob story from Dorries about another mysterious door-off-the-hinges burglary that leaves no trace of damage… this time resulting in (Oh Noes!) the mysterious deletion of every reference to me that’s held in her office files and on her office computers.

I find it consistently hilarious that someone so outspoken about the hundreds of messages they have recieved from their supposed stalker suddenly becomes all coy when asked to actually show those messages.

Why on earth could it be so difficult to honour a simple freedom of information request?

By A Walpole May 26, 2011 - 8:31 pm

Nadine Dorries is typical of the types of people I met in my local Parish Council and County Council. You try to get them to do their job. They tell you why they can't do it. You point out their duties and then they refuse and go quiet. They try to make out you are a nuisance and start to smear you. you then dig further using the Freedom of Information act and expose a mess of mal administration etc. They then try everything to try to stop you getting this information and close ranks. You start making complaints only to have them rejected. You dig further and you find the people you are complaining to are linked. Like Dorries I found a lot of these people liked to sit various bodies that they do not attend. It makes them feel important. I traced this trail of "corruption" all the way to Dorries who refuses to reply to any emails or letters. There are a lot of things this so called MP could have easily fixed but she won't even listen. I can't wait to pose some questions to this MP in a public meeting. If she survives this long.

By guesty gusto July 16, 2013 - 4:49 pm

Nad Dorries – is that the one who went on 'Celeb-GMOOH (booted off rapid-like!) aiming for poz publicity for the Tories, but only managing in the end to embarrass Cambo & Co? If so, the woman's achievements that week means I, for one, will always give her my full attention whenever she chooses to speak out – no matter how silly and/or untrue might be her words. Any individual who can embarrass an already ridiculous tribe of toffs n' tossers like that lot has got to be some kind of goddam genius.